Our VerdictKunitsu-Gami’s a gorgeous and engaging take on tower defence.
Our VerdictKunitsu-Gami’s a gorgeous and engaging take on tower defence.
Our Verdict
Our Verdict
Kunitsu-Gami’s a gorgeous and engaging take on tower defence.
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Need to knowWhat is it?A brilliant mix of deadly demons, divine dancing, and deft defenceExpect to pay£39.99/$49.99DeveloperCAPCOM Co., Ltd.PublisherCAPCOM Co., Ltd.Reviewed onIntel Core i7-7700HQ, GTX 1070, 16GB RAMMultiplayer?NoSteam DeckVerifiedLinkOfficial website
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What is it?A brilliant mix of deadly demons, divine dancing, and deft defenceExpect to pay£39.99/$49.99DeveloperCAPCOM Co., Ltd.PublisherCAPCOM Co., Ltd.Reviewed onIntel Core i7-7700HQ, GTX 1070, 16GB RAMMultiplayer?NoSteam DeckVerifiedLinkOfficial website
What is it?A brilliant mix of deadly demons, divine dancing, and deft defenceExpect to pay£39.99/$49.99DeveloperCAPCOM Co., Ltd.PublisherCAPCOM Co., Ltd.Reviewed onIntel Core i7-7700HQ, GTX 1070, 16GB RAMMultiplayer?NoSteam DeckVerifiedLinkOfficial website
Kunitsu-Gami’s levels run on a short day/night cycle, the light hours spent searching for people to rescue, bolstering my defences, and repairing key local structures, the night passed fighting back the hordes of monsters making a beeline for Yoshiro. Much of my success depends on my daylight strategizing. Is it better to spend the crystals I’ve gathered cutting a path for Yoshiro, allowing her to get closer to the end of the stage, or should I spend them to equip villagers with combat roles that suit our latest hold-out point? Have I positioned them in the right places, blocking off all the routes to the priestess and setting us up to snipe incoming enemies from afar? Is it worth running off on a life-restoring ration hunt, or should I turn a unit into a healer instead?
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Larger bosses can easily tear through an unprepared team(Image credit: Capcom)
Larger bosses can easily tear through an unprepared team(Image credit: Capcom)
Larger bosses can easily tear through an unprepared team(Image credit: Capcom)
Larger bosses can easily tear through an unprepared team(Image credit: Capcom)
Larger bosses can easily tear through an unprepared team(Image credit: Capcom)
And if it’s all going wrong while I’m in there swinging my sword, that’s nothing a bit of slightly panicked mid-battle adjusting can’t fix anyway.
It’s a good thing Kunitsu-Gami’s so flexible, because no two stages play the same. Sometimes I’ve got a small group huddled together, ready to fend off an all-out assault in a worryingly open area; sometimes I’ve got enough troops and space to tactically spread everyone out. Maybe it’ll be too dark to see anything unless I send people off to light the stone lanterns lining the winding way out, or I’ll have to quickly decide which of two paths to send Yoshiro dancing down and adjust my strategy to match. Numerous boss battles switch things up again, the combination of devastating attacks with huge areas of effect and the ever-present threat of a sudden swarm encouraging a new sort of improvisation.
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My clever tactical spacing suddenly means nothing if a boss has ordered a swarm of enemies to descend on Yoshiro—my team’s all-out assault will have to wait until they’re dealt with. But leaving everyone grouped closely together around her can cause its own problems when bosses spit fire or damage the ground beneath their feet, and it’s important to scatter my forces in those moments, drawing their attacks away from the one thing I need to protect. There is no one right way to fight, just a string of decisions that hopefully keep everyone alive.
Thankfully boss battles give me access to single-press “Everyone attack the monster” and “Everyone protect Yoshiro” commands on top of the quick and intuitive individual control I have of each unit, and however busy the game gets, I know I’ll always have the time to properly consider my options as bringing up the command menu pauses the action. Thanks to these features I get the best of both worlds—I can sit and properly think out a new strategy whenever I need to, but if I do have an idea I can execute it so quickly there’s barely a break in the action.
I’m often tempted to go back and play the same level again right after I finish it: the results screen taunts me with all of the reward-giving optional challenges I didn’t manage to clear the first time around. Sometimes this could be as simple as making sure I use a specific number of different villager types, sometimes it’s as tough as making sure Yoshiro, or maybe even Soh, make it through the entire stage unscathed.
Image1of6(Image credit: Capcom)(Image credit: Capcom)The bonus artwork is a real treat(Image credit: Capcom)Yes, you can pet the dog, cow, deer, and bunny(Image credit: Capcom)Yoshiro can only dance if Soh carves her a path(Image credit: Capcom)Stage select screen, or beautiful view? Why not both?(Image credit: Capcom)
Image1of6(Image credit: Capcom)(Image credit: Capcom)The bonus artwork is a real treat(Image credit: Capcom)Yes, you can pet the dog, cow, deer, and bunny(Image credit: Capcom)Yoshiro can only dance if Soh carves her a path(Image credit: Capcom)Stage select screen, or beautiful view? Why not both?(Image credit: Capcom)
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(Image credit: Capcom)(Image credit: Capcom)The bonus artwork is a real treat(Image credit: Capcom)Yes, you can pet the dog, cow, deer, and bunny(Image credit: Capcom)Yoshiro can only dance if Soh carves her a path(Image credit: Capcom)Stage select screen, or beautiful view? Why not both?(Image credit: Capcom)
(Image credit: Capcom)(Image credit: Capcom)The bonus artwork is a real treat(Image credit: Capcom)Yes, you can pet the dog, cow, deer, and bunny(Image credit: Capcom)Yoshiro can only dance if Soh carves her a path(Image credit: Capcom)Stage select screen, or beautiful view? Why not both?(Image credit: Capcom)
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The bonus artwork is a real treat(Image credit: Capcom)
The bonus artwork is a real treat(Image credit: Capcom)
The bonus artwork is a real treat(Image credit: Capcom)
The bonus artwork is a real treat(Image credit: Capcom)
The bonus artwork is a real treat(Image credit: Capcom)
Yes, you can pet the dog, cow, deer, and bunny(Image credit: Capcom)
Yes, you can pet the dog, cow, deer, and bunny(Image credit: Capcom)
Yes, you can pet the dog, cow, deer, and bunny(Image credit: Capcom)
Yes, you can pet the dog, cow, deer, and bunny(Image credit: Capcom)
Yes, you can pet the dog, cow, deer, and bunny(Image credit: Capcom)
Yoshiro can only dance if Soh carves her a path(Image credit: Capcom)
Yoshiro can only dance if Soh carves her a path(Image credit: Capcom)
Yoshiro can only dance if Soh carves her a path(Image credit: Capcom)
Yoshiro can only dance if Soh carves her a path(Image credit: Capcom)
Yoshiro can only dance if Soh carves her a path(Image credit: Capcom)
Stage select screen, or beautiful view? Why not both?(Image credit: Capcom)
Stage select screen, or beautiful view? Why not both?(Image credit: Capcom)
Stage select screen, or beautiful view? Why not both?(Image credit: Capcom)
Stage select screen, or beautiful view? Why not both?(Image credit: Capcom)
Stage select screen, or beautiful view? Why not both?(Image credit: Capcom)
It never looked ugly either, thanks to Capcom’s now-standard suite of graphical options. Getting a neat visual thumbnail showing the exact difference between two types of volumetric fog made it easy to tweak the game to my own preferences. KB+M controls are just as well thought out, the basics mapped to all the most sensible options (jump on spacebar, for one example), and all other commands within easy reach of my WASD-hovering fingers.
I fell in love with this game the instant the first diorama-styled stage came into view, and every moment afterwards only made me adore it more. I can put a cool little archer guy I just rescued on a plinth and enjoy watching themplinkenemies out of the sky. I can plunge Soh sword-first into a bunch of demons and wipe them all out. I get to enjoy a group dance at the end of it, and then do it all again in another impossibly beautiful location.
At first I wanted to rush through the story because I knew I’d be rewarded with beautiful dances, exciting battles, hair-raising surprises, and the chance to pet all the cats, bunnies, pigs, and cute dogs milling around the freshly purified villages I saved along the way. Now I want to take my time and endlessly replay areas I’ve already cleared just to prove my strategic skills or take out a screen-sized boss in a new record time. However I want to play, I know Kunitsu-Gami’s got a challenge—and a reward—waiting for me.
The Verdict86Read our review policyKunitsu-Gami: Path of the GoddessKunitsu-Gami’s a gorgeous and engaging take on tower defence.
The Verdict
The Verdict
86Read our review policyKunitsu-Gami: Path of the GoddessKunitsu-Gami’s a gorgeous and engaging take on tower defence.
86Read our review policy
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Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the GoddessKunitsu-Gami’s a gorgeous and engaging take on tower defence.
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
Kunitsu-Gami’s a gorgeous and engaging take on tower defence.
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